I recently joined Facebook, within the past week. I know, I know. A bit behind the times. I still don’t have a cell phone.<\/p>\n
I probably have my privacy settings too high (considering I frequently post the sort of information most people put on Facebook on my blog, on the internet, for everyone to read). But Facebook is scary! What really disturbs me is that, immediately, right after I’d joined, before I’d tried to add any friends at all, Facebook already had a list of people that it “thought I might know,” and suggested I add as friends. And I did know most of them! How does Facebook know?<\/p>\n
My theory is that these were people who had previously searched for me on Facebook, before I was on, and that Facebook saves records of all those searches. I hope that’s true; the alternatives are a little too disturbing to contemplate.<\/p>\n
Facebook has already suggested one ex-boyfriend to me as a potential friend. (“Face-your-past-book”) But at least it hasn’t suggested anyone I actively dislike (nor have any of those people tried to friend me). I have also discovered that Facebook provides all sorts of new opportunities for my raging insecurities about myself (“Why hasn’t that person accepted my friend request? Do they hate me? What did I do? Maybe it was [X]. But that doesn’t make sense. I must just be a horrible person….”).<\/p>\n
Now we just need to get Tallulah on Catbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently joined Facebook, within the past week. I know, I know. A bit behind the times. I still don’t have a cell phone. I probably have my privacy settings too high (considering I frequently post the sort of information … Continue reading